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245 00 Cultures of commemoration :|bwar memorials, ancient and
modern /|cedited by Polly Low, Graham Oliver and P.J.
Rhodes.
260 Oxford :|bPublished for the British Academy by Oxford
University Press,|c2012.
300 xii, 199 pages :|billustrations ;|c25 cm.
336 text|2rdacontent.
337 unmediated|2rdamedia.
338 volume|2rdacarrier.
490 1 Proceedings of the British Academy,|v160
505 8 Contents: Preface / P. J. Rhodes ; Comparing Cultures of
Commemoration in Ancient and Modern Societies / Polly Low
and Graham Oliver ; The Monuments ot the War Dead in
Classical Athens: Forms, Contexts, Meanings / Polly Low ;
Commemorating the War Dead of the Roman World / Alison
Cooley ; The Ritualised Commemoration of War in the
Hellenistic City: Memory, Identity, Emotion / Angelos
Chaniotis ; Two Neo-Classical Monuments in Modern France:
The Pantheon and Arc de Triomphe / Avner Ben-Amos ; Naming
the Dead, Writing the Individual: Classical Traditions and
Commemorative Practices in the Nineteenth and Twentieth
Centuries / Graham Oliver ; Cultural Memory and the Great
War: Medievalism and Classicism in British and German War
Memorials / Stefan Goebel ; Monument to Defeat: the
Vietnam Veterans Memorial in American Culture and Society
/ Lawrence A. Tritle.
520 8 This volume presents studies of military commemorative
practices in Western culture, from 5th-century BC Greece,
through two World Wars, to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
This new comparative approach reveals that the distant
past has had a lasting influence on commemorative practice
in modern times.
650 0 War memorials|xHistory.
650 0 War memorials.
700 1 Low, Polly,|eeditor.
700 1 Oliver, G. J.|q(Graham John),|d1966-|eeditor.
700 1 Rhodes, P. J.|q(Peter John),|eeditor.
710 2 British Academy,|eissuing body.
830 0 Proceedings of the British Academy ;|v160.
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